Obama is back on the stump and he wants back in the game.. Not wanting to waste the debt ceiling crisis, he used the East Room of the White House last evening to campaign for re-election. He used the bully…
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Voters support Republican position in debt ceiling negotiations
According to a recent Rasmussen survey, eighty-five percent (85%) of voters are following the debt ceiling story closely and 52% believe it would be dangerous to raise the debt ceiling without making significant cuts in government spending. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of…
U.S. Treasury options to avoid default
The U.S. Treasury Department has options available to it right now to avoid default in the short term and provide the time required to engineer a long term solution to the problem of unrestrained government spending. The U.S. does not have…
President or Megalomaniac???
Obama found his way to the presence of the White House Press Corp (that’s pronounced “core.” Mr. President) to use his bully pulpit and expose his affinity for the white hot lights once again. His message was about the status of…
The House wimps out on Libya
The US House took a half-stand on the Libyan War yesterday. Despite being ignored and marginalized by the Commander-In-Chief regarding his defiance of the War Powers Resolution, the House voted only to prohibit military aid to Libyan rebels battling Moammar…
Obama on offense….or just offensive?
President Obama is either a student of Claus von Clausewitz or Jack Dempsey. Both have been credited with the statement that “The best defense is a good offense.” Yesterday President Obama rolled out his offense in his first news conference since…
“Ozone Man” is back
Obama can’t seem to catch a break. A worsening economy, an uptick in unemployment, stagflation approaching, failed economic and monetary policies, Congress threatening to defund Obamacare, Planned Parenthood and the illegal “kinetic military action” in Libya, the entrance of a…
The CBO report on Obama’s Stimulus Program
On Wednesday, The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released The 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook: Testimony Before The House Budget Committee. You can read the testimony at http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12253 if you have a few hours but here is the bottom line. The report finds that…
A prime time campaign speech
In case you missed it, you didn’t miss anything but a 30-second “report” by Obama on how “his” surge was successful in Afghanistan. Nothing tangible or demonstrable, no national defense strategy, just a self-serving declaration of victory. The rest was…
White House criminal behavior
The following excerpt is furnished exactly as written in the War Powers Act of 1973: Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Section 2: (c) The constitutional powers of…